Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-11
BOUND TO HAVE HIM.
An Austrian woman Pursucs her
Husband From vienna to New
Work..

There is distracted Austrian physi-
clan in this city. tonight. HIS name
is Otto Schnoeppe, and he is as wild a
married man as ever administered
blue pills or amputated a leg.
About six years ago he married in
Vienna, where he was practicing med
icine. For the best of reasons, as he
says, he left his wife the morning after
their marriage. She did not submit
calmly to the separation, however.
She made life 50 miserable for the
doctor that he fed from Vienna and
hid himself in Odessa under an as
sumed name. Nevertheless, in few
months she found him out and de-
nounced him to the Russian authori
ties as an Austrian spy. He only
escaped being sent to Siberia by n
miracle, and concealed in the hold of
a Black Sea steamer, he was carried
to Constantinople. There he took a
third name and acquired large prac-
tice. But of no avail. One day his
pertinacious wife stood before him and
announced her intention of staying
with him until death did them part.
DIR. Schnoeppe submitted to his fate
for while, but the situation became
intolerable. This time he determined
to leave no trace behind him if possi-
BILE. One day he was summoned to
attend an English nobleman who was
taken sick in his private yacht, which
was lying in the Bosphorus, not far
from the city. The report was
brought to his wife that the boat
which was conveying him to the
yacht had been capsized and that he
had been drowned. The boatmen in
their wet clothes, who had been res
cued at the last gasp, brought the
news to Mrs. Schnoeppe, and gave
her graphic account OF her hus-
bands death.
All their stories were false, how
ever, as the sequel proves, and did
not deceive Mrs. Schn9ppe very long,
if they did at all. DIR. Schn9ppe. in
stead of being "demmed moist, I'M
pleasant body" was a very lively
passenger on steamer for Marseilles.
This time he determined to make a
very long flight indeed. He did not
stop until he got to this city. Feeling
sure that his wife would not search
for him again, he assumed his real
name for the first time since leaving
Vienna, and began to practice medi-
cine among the German living on the
east side of the city. He got along
fairly we'll, and was beginning to be a
happy man once more, when one eve
ming six weeks ago his servant told
him that lady patient wished to see
him in the office. He went gayly in,
thinking of the expected fee. His
wife greeted him in pure German.
lotto, you cannot escape me while
you are alive. You married me and
you must support me-"
A stormy scene ensued, which ended
by the doctor summoning police,
man. At the station house she,
through an interpreter, made charge
of abandonment against her husband
and he stayed in the station house
while she departed free. In the
Police. Court next morning DIR
Schnoeppe was sentenced to pay
his wife $40 week for hei
support or go to Jail for an indefinite
period. With groan he agreed tc
pay So, but even then the implacable
woman was not satisfied. She got q
lawyer to bring suit for divorce Oh
the ground OF abandonment, and to-
day the lawyer got decree for $40 q
week and temporary alimony and
$3.50 counsel fees.
DIR. Schnoeppe swears he will not
stand it, but as his only remaining
place OF refuge seems to be centra
Africa or the north pole, he is nearly
at his wits end.-[New York Letter